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RE concept of cognitive load in education, I recently read an interesting review paper Cognitive load theory, educational research, and instructional design: some food for thought by Ton de Jong[1] that did a good job at criticizing the idea as unfalsifiable. By defining three types of cognitive load intrinsic (unavoidable), extrinsic (bad), and germane (learning), it becomes easy to relabel things at will and reach any conclusion. If an education experience is good, then it must be because the cognitive load experienced was germane, if the experience was bad, then it must have had too much extrinsic load.

So it's a nice idea/concept, but difficult to study scientifically.

[1] https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11251-009-911...